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Corruption and the Political Economy of Resource-Based Development : A Comparison of Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa
Barbier, Edward B. - 2010
corruption. The impacts of corruption on long-run changes and periodic growth in the adjusted net savings rate are estimated … across African and Asian economies from 1970 to 2003. Corruption rather than resource dependency per se affects negatively … the ability of African countries to reinvest resource rents in the short term, but for Asian countries, corruption is less …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014044571
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Environmental and energy implications of meat consumption pathways in sub-Saharan Africa
Falchetta, Giacomo; Golinucci, Nicolò; Noussan, Michel; … - 2021
In sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) diets are largely based on cereal or root staple crops. Together with socio-cultural change, economic and demographic growth could boost the demand for meat, with significant environmental repercussions. We model meat consumption pathways to 2050 for SSA based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012487805
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Evaluating the impacts of minigrid electrification in sub-Saharan Africa
Ayhan, Sinem H.; Falchetta, Giacomo; Steckel, Jan Christoph - 2022
A large share of the population of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) lacks access to modern energy services. To bridge the electricity access gap, distributed power generation systems such as minigrids and stand-alone photovoltaic systems emerge as attractive options in the power supply solution space....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013342931
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Environmental and Energy Implications of Meat Consumption Pathways in Sub-Saharan Africa
Falchetta, Giacomo; Golinucci, Nicolò; Noussan, Michel; … - 2021
In sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) diets are largely based on cereal or root staple crops. Together with socio-cultural change, economic and demographic growth could boost the demand for meat, with significant environmental repercussions. We model meat consumption pathways to 2050 for SSA based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013239608
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Economic globalisation, institutions and environmental quality in Sub-Saharan Africa
Yameogo, Claire E. W.; Omojolaibi, Joseph Ayoola; … - In: Research in globalization 3 (2021), pp. 1-9
environmental degradation while economic globalisation and control of corruption negatively affects environmental degradation in SSA …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012605917
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Agricultural Sector Development and Structural Transformation : Sub-Saharan Africa Versus East Asia
Kim, Hee-Sik - 2017
This study examines the nature of economic stagnation in the majority of the countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and discusses different approaches to structural transformation of their traditional agriculture-based economies. The argument is that the economies and people of SSA countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972441
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Agricultural Sector Development and Structural Transformation : Sub-Saharan Africa Versus East Asia
Kim, Hee-Sik - 2021
in preparing the economies to take off. It finds supportive evidence from experiences of East Asia's catching up with SSA …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013242951
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(De facto) historical ethnic borders and land tenure in Sub-Saharan Africa
Depetris-Chauvin, Emilio; Özak, Ömer - 2023
We study the role of proximity to historical ethnic borders in determining individual land ownership in Sub-Saharan Africa. Following an instrumental variable strategy, we document that individuals have a lower likelihood of owning land near historical ethnic borders. In particular, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014249737
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(De facto) historical ethnic borders and land tenure in Sub-Saharan Africa
Depetris-Chauvin, Emilio; Özak, Ömer - 2023
We study the role of proximity to historical ethnic borders in determining individual land ownership in Sub-Saharan Africa. Following an instrumental variable strategy, we document that individuals have a lower likelihood of owning land near historical ethnic borders. In particular, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014276040
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Structural transformation and its relevance for economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa
Busse, Matthias; Erdogan, Ceren; Mühlen, Henning - 2017
In this paper, we analyse the role of structural transformation in view of the remarkable growth performance of sub-Saharan African countries since the mid-1990s. Our analysis covers 41 African countries over the period 1980 to 2014 and accounts for structural transformation by employing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011729148